Nominees for First Vice President

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Thomas M. Conte

Position statement
This is one of the most challenging times in our profession. The global recession and its impact on our industry and on our lives have been profound. The IEEE Computer Society is here to support the computer professionals who make up the Society. This is important now more than ever. We can’t let red tape or petty squabbles get in the way of a Computer Society that’s useful and valuable to its members. I’ve been an active member of the Computer Society for more than two decades, serving in many leadership roles.

The Computer Society’s lifeblood is our conferences, symposia, and technical committees. I believe strongly that these activities must have a higher profile within the Computer Society. Any legislative or administrative walls that have built up over the years should be torn down.  Our members who are trying to run a conference, build a new technical committee’s community, or expand an already vibrant community need our direct support. They should not hear “you can’t do it,” but instead hear “how can we help you do it?” The “Is it helping our members?” test is the guiding principle behind any and all decisions I have made as a Board of Governors member, and will be the same principle I use as vice president of the Society.  This is our Society. I volunteer to the Computer Society to make sure it remains pointed in the right direction, and stays our Society.


Biography
Thomas M. Conte has been deeply involved with the Computer Society throughout more than 25 years of IEEE membership. He has shepherded major symposia as chair for the Technical Committee on Microarchitecture (TC-uARCH) and has served on editorial boards for Computer and Micro magazines, and Transactions on Computers, among others. Conte, an elected member of the Board of Governors, has served as the IEEE Computer Society Awards Committee chair since 2009. He has focused on streamlining and revamping the awards process so that more of our outstanding members are recognized for their accomplishments.

Conte is an IEEE Fellow and serves as chair of the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee. He is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he holds a joint appointment in the schools of computer science and electrical and computer engineering. Conte likes to say that, if given a choice between the intrigue of academic power brokering or the challenge of teaching sophomores K-maps and pipelining, he’d choose the latter hands-down, every time. His research focuses on many-core computer architecture, compiler code generation, and fast simulation techniques. Conte received a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
 

Jean-Luc Gaudiot

Position statement
I strongly believe in the Computer Society’s mission as an international organization to provide technical information and services to advance the theory, practice, and application of information processing science and technology. If elected first vice president, I will continue to promote the services that are our hallmark, including transactions, magazines, and conferences.

We know how our profession has revolutionized the way in which scientific and engineering knowledge is created, disseminated, and evaluated. Most of our publications are now online and many are even available on a variety of e-readers. As the technology that our work has helped to create continues reaching researchers and practitioners in more disciplines in more new ways, several questions become more important to deal with: On what devices will we be receiving our articles? What new areas must we own to remain at the forefront of knowledge creation? Admittedly, these are but the tip of the iceberg.

I know what challenges await, and I have supported some of these efforts in several offices within the Computer Society. I submit that I am prepared to be first vice president and intend to serve as a unifying force to help coalesce opportunities into a coherent vision of our future. With all the challenges in so many dimensions in front of us, I will help the Computer Society continue to make a difference in the lives of its members. I ask you to give me a chance to help us do that.

Biography
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, currently a professor at the University of California, Irvine, has served the Computer Society for almost 20 years in a variety of offices, which has given him experience in many activities of the Society. He currently serves on the Board of Governors and the Audit Committee, and is chair of the Publications Board’s Transactions Operations Committee. He was one of the founders and the first editor in chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, editor in chief of Transactions on Computers, chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture for two terms, and program committee and general chair of many major conferences. Gaudiot is a Computer Society Golden Core member and a Fellow of IEEE and the AAAS.

Before joining UCI, where he was department chair for six years, Gaudiot was a professor at the University of Southern California. His industrial experience includes software and architecture design at Teledyne and TRW. Gaudiot’s research focuses on computer architecture, a field in which he has more than 200 refereed publications.
 
In his spare time, he combines his passion for aviation with his love for teaching by working as an active flight instructor (both primary and instrument).